Brewery X, an Independent & Craft brewery on Anaheim’s La Palma Beer Trail continues its partnership in outreach where we can make the most good. Together with other organizations, we are continuing our outreach to support low-income communities in South Central & Watts, Los Angeles, and Orange County.
The commonality between an Independent & Craft brewery and under resourced communities might not be immediately apparent, but Brewery X has always operated on the principal of interconnection.
Eventually, all of our paths cross, and for Brewery X, taking care of itself is inseparable from taking care of the community.
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The X in Brewery X is about crossing paths. It represents that communities and people are connected. Brewery X is putting its resources in support of these programs:
o The Painted Turtle, a free camp for children with serious medical conditions. The Painted Turtle believes all children should be able to experience the joys of childhood and the profound, life-long impact of camp.
o Watts Rams Youth Football, an afterschool program that supports boys and girls ages seven to thirteen who live in one of the most gang-affiliated and violent communities of South Central Los Angeles. The teams include a comprehensive cross-section of kids coming from three different housing developments in Watts, each representing a rival gang territory. Despite these affiliations, the children come together with the common goal of working as one team.
o Strive, a safe haven that provides exemplary academic and guidance resources to children, youth and their families in the Watts community of Los Angeles, an underserved neighborhood with a cluster of more than fifty of California’s lowest- performing schools.
o iPlay, iLead Basketball Academy, a year-round youth basketball program in South Central Los Angeles that builds resilience through sports and positive youth development. At its core, though, iPlay, iLead is not a basketball program. Rather, it is a program that prioritizes positive character development and resilience. Led by dedicated volunteer coaches and sponsored by LA Lakers great Kurt Rambis, kids from four to seventeen learn fundamental basketball skills while building character through the program’s pillars: resilience, teamwork, leadership, respect, responsibility, attitude, and confidence.
o Operation Progress, provides mentorship, scholarships, case management, and academic enrichment to students starting in third grade and continuing through college/vocational school.
o Run2Remember, a 10K and half marathon race that pays tribute to first responders who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Run2 Remember honors the past by raising funds to serve the families of those who have fallen.
o Soap Box Derby, which brings STEM education, problem-solving skills, and leadership development to children ages eight to eighteen in Watts. In this program, kids become engineers, designers, and builders of their own soap box cars for a chance to drive them with nothing but gravity power.
o CHOC, Children’s for Diabetes Research, provides life changing research which eases the pain and heartbreak of a child’s diagnosis
o A Place Called Home, which provides more than 1,000 young people (ages eight to mid-twenties) and their families with a safe, nurturing environment that houses programs in arts, education, and wellness for communities of South Central Los Angeles to help them improve their economic conditions and develop healthy, fulfilling and purposeful lives. More than 100 college students receive financial support and counseling from A Place Called Home.
o The 77th Street Foundation, which elicits community involvement in the continual campaign against crime by providing assistance to community members and educational programs to police officers.
o North East Lincoln Tigers Youth Football, an after-school community football program for thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys and girls that teaches the discipline of sports and teamwork, while helping participants gain confidence, inner strength, and leadership skills necessary to overcome challenges in life. The programs serve youth in the Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, and El Sereno neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where many young children see membership in a gang as their only option for survival.
o American Red Cross, Brewery X continues to provide a leading location in Orange County for the donation of both blood and plasma
o OC Smoke Kitchen, a pop up food donation with local Chefs catering to the under and unemployed OC service industry
o Project Blue is collaboration with the LAPDs CSP (Community Safety Partnership) that supports officers doing youth outreach in robust, sustainable ways. Project Blue officers work with community members to provide holistic youth programming that supports children’s academic, physical, and emotional health, and draws their families and police and community mentors into growing their skills and well-being.
o Team Garcia Youth Boxing, which provides inner city youth in South Los Angeles with a rigorous training regime that is a powerful after-school alternative in an area where gang affiliation is a common path for young people. Despite their gym being located in one of the highest violent-crime areas of Los Angeles, most youth participate in the program four to six days per week with unwavering support from their families. The training program, available to kids ages six to eighteen, teaches self-control, teamwork, and positive channeling of emotions, and provides a sense of family while maintaining high standards of personal well-being through nutrition, physical, and mental health. Youth participants learn respect, leadership, and character through the sport of boxing.
o Coaching Corps, which recruits and trains volunteers to coach children in low-income communities so that they can experience the same benefits as children from middle-class and affluent households. The program focuses on promoting confidence, self-reliance, and teamwork.
o 10K With a Cop, a running club in which youth and mentors meet four times a week to train for a 10K. But running 6.2 miles is just the beginning of the story. The program prioritizes a weekly resilience curriculum through facilitated discussions between mentors and youth. 10K with a Cop also provides a tutoring program to ensure participants maintain grade level standards. At each weekly training session, mentors also lead conversations about various topics that align with a specific theme for that month, such as nutrition or overcoming obstacles, all while gradually increasing their kids’ running distances.
o Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, an acute care children’s hospital in the East Hollywood district of Los Angeles.